> does this happen when we sleep? I did wonder this too for a bit but I think if you have experienced very bad sleeping patterns you start to realize that slee

> does this happen when we sleep? I did wonder this too for a bit but I think if you have experienced very bad sleeping patterns you start to realize that sleep is more of a transition than an off switch and what is happening around you can enter your dreams, you can remain conscious and in control from dream start to end with lucid dreaming and also what you dream can come into the real world in high fidelity for a few moments through hypnopompic hallucinations. From experiencing this it makes me feel sleep is more like you maintain your self you were the night before and the on off switch feeling is just because your brain chooses not to remember it.